Thanks @pamo for this time saving tip

[jordan]

Thanks, I should have been more specific I meant your 100ml bottles but you already answered that =p I have some 5 10 and 30 ml bottles I got from Liberty Flights that were fairly cheap in my opinion and they came through the post yesterday morning =D Will have to send LT an email asking if I can buy some of their 100ml bottles since they don't appear to sell them seperately

[Karma]

Sept 11, 2013 9:27:35 GMT jordan said:

Thanks, I should have been more specific I meant your 100ml bottles but you already answered that =p I have some 5 10 and 30 ml bottles I got from Liberty Flights that were fairly cheap in my opinion and they came through the post yesterday morning =D Will have to send LT an email asking if I can buy some of their 100ml bottles since they don't appear to sell them seperately

Try here if you can't get any from LT.  The bases etc are much the same price so you could order a couple of bits to make postage worthwhile

www.inaweraflavours.com/en/9-do-it-yourself

[jordan]

Karma you are a bad influence..... icon_shoppingm I've just seen that they do bulk of the vpg base and concentrates. Oh so tempted to just buy 5 litres now lol

[giles]

Sept 11, 2013 9:12:59 GMT jordan said:

At less than £6 per 100ml of base nic there cant be massive amounts of difference in price by diluting your own base nic. Where do you get your bottles from Karma ?

Well, yes, there is. Buy nic from the states, 1 litre 72mg was about £100 delivered last time I got it. Last lot of PG was about £6-50 for 500 ml delivered. Mix around 4 parts nic to 1 part nic, gives a cost for 100 ml of about £3-80.

I bought glass bottles (http://www.ampulla.co.uk/Shop-For-Glass/Clear-Glass-Sirop-Bottles/c-1-169-186/) to store the nic in the freezer (which does up the cost, but it is also a hedge against legislation). My pre-mix is  in 500ml and 100ml plastic bottles that I got with PG and nic in them in my early days of mixing - I mostly vape almost 100% PG, but use a high % VG to make for a friend and when I have a cold. I got my 30ml squeezy plastic bottles from LF and Vapeescape because I was buying other stuff from them at the time. It is worth shopping around - cost depends on postage, and whether you want needle caps.

[Pam O]

Sept 11, 2013 6:55:40 GMT @freefromsmoking said:

Pam O posted this tip recently in reply to bazzer343 's thread "going to scream soon" allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/28645/scream-soon 
I have adopted this as a great way to have a ready made nic/pg/vg mix to which I now only have to add my flavouring. Instead of having separate nic, pg and vg bottles on the workbench at the same time and syringing the required quantity from each, I have one 100ml bottle of 18mg 60/40 premix and if, for example, I want to mix a 10ml sample with 10% flavour it is simply a matter of syringing 9ml of the premix and 1 ml of flavour. Simples!  ... A big thank you Pam for what now seems an obvious way of doing it 

Ooooo LOL look at me!! Suggesting something useful!

I have to say because I am not very adventurous with flavours once I find something I like I make up 30ml bottles so I mainly keep the plain juice for diluting flavours that are too strong but now and then if I want a quick mix I will chuck some flavour in there, the drop in nic isn't noticeable to me at least..

[poochops]

Sept 11, 2013 11:03:45 GMT giles said:

Sept 11, 2013 9:12:59 GMT jordan said:

At less than £6 per 100ml of base nic there cant be massive amounts of difference in price by diluting your own base nic. Where do you get your bottles from Karma ?

Well, yes, there is. Buy nic from the states, 1 litre 72mg was about £100 delivered last time I got it. Last lot of PG was about £6-50 for 500 ml delivered. Mix around 4 parts nic to 1 part nic, gives a cost for 100 ml of about £3-80.

You could even go one better, I ordered a litre of 100mg for £120, add 4.5 litres of Pg costing another £30 and your resulting 18mg base is coming out at less than £2.75. I knocked it down to 54mg for storage and add the rest of the Pg when I decant smaller batches to make my useable base mixes, it'd cause a few heated discussions loading up the freezer with 5.5 litres of base